[ExI] Your vote doesn't count?

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 22:26:40 UTC 2016


On Mar 21, 2016 8:56 AM, "Dan TheBookMan" <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/03/your-vote-doesnt-count
>
> I've never seem anyone brandish the "voting is fun" argument.

He ignores the herd argument.  While you can't change the behavior of
everyone else directly, it's like a large game of Prisoner's Dillema: we
are collectively better off the more of us engage in the voting process
(including getting informed about the issues), even if individually we
might gain a slight immediate benefit (saving a small amount of time) by
not voting.
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